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benguild

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Jul 29, 2003
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So when the APFS conversion happened, Apple mentioned that of course existing duplicate files on drives wouldn't be deduplicated, although copies of files going wouldn't take up 2x the diskspace, etc.

Is there a non-destructive way to deduplicate these "blocks" currently? At first thought, I'm assuming not as it'd probably be quite CPU-intensive to verify the matching bits and potentially wearing on the SSD, not sure.
 
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